Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ex-convict Charrièere found himself a huge celebrity when the book sold a million copies in France , two-and-a-half million in America and ten million throughout the world . |
| 2 | Mr Flood was silent and blessed himself a great deal when he heard the news . |
| 3 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 4 | However , the party will give itself a new name when it resumes the congress next weekend . |
| 5 | However , the party will give itself a new name when it resumes the congress next weekend . |
| 6 | As a batsman he made 3,882 runs at a modest average , but showed himself a robust tail-ender when it mattered . |
| 7 | It had asked itself the wrong question when interpreting one of the ‘ X ’ questions in the empowering statute . |
| 8 | He might even allow himself a wry laugh when he considers how the West has come to excoriate Ceausescu today , after all those years when they applauded his ‘ daring ’ dissent from Warsaw Pact orthodoxy , and acting as a thorn in the Kremlin 's body politic . |
| 9 | Henry Cecil 's colt proved himself a thorough stayer when running on strongly at the end of the 1 ¾ miles of the St Leger on rain-softened ground at Ayr , but the Champion is run over half a mile less . |
| 10 | Balbirnie House , near Glenrothes in Fife , set itself a double challenge when it opened in November 1989 : not only did it launch into a depressed economy , but during a traditionally poor month for Scottish hotels . |